Chapter 6: April Fools – Part Three
A/N: Thanks for waiting, Hope y'all enjoy the gang's prank on Ally.
ALLY'S APARTMENT | March 31st, 2013 |
It was two am that night when Ally was passed out in her room due to a particularly brutal investigation that day, Libby, Chelsea and Barry were speaking in hushed voices as they moved around the apartment.
Barry had enlisted the two roommates' help in order to get Ally back for a pranks she pulled when they were in the office the year previous – He had gone in to work only to find that his keyboard had been turned into a mini-garden. Barry had struck back that year, with a booby-trapped drawer of Ally's where he rigged a balloon to pop when she opened it. She had screamed and jumped a foot in the air, and while hilarious, Barry wanted to even further bamboozle his favorite blonde friend even more this year.
Chelsea had rules for her pranks, basically to confuse, not abuse her victim. Which is why she had shot down many of the group's previous prank ideas.
It had been Libby who came up with the idea, as she had known Ally the longest. The prank played off of Ally's slight OCD. They'd move everything in her daily path to be off center. The apartment was the first place they arranged, setting things on twisted angles.
"Looks good." Libby declared, surveying their work, before all three of them snuck quietly out of the apartment, making sure to leave a dummy sleeping in the other two girl's beds in case Ally got out of bed.
CCPD LAB | |
The second was the CSI lab, where all three moved things around and twisted pictures and slanted everything all over the lab. Barry logged into Ally's computer and rearranged her desktop and its icons
Libby went into the desk drawers and jostled up her papers and office supplies, while Chelsea twisted and turned the bottles of chemicals and the lab machinery.
While they were working, Libby watched Barry play with the pictures on Ally's desk, smiling at the sight of himself and Ally in various times of their lives.
They all exchanged high fives once they finished, before going off to their respective places to sleep.
ALLY'S APARTMENT | April 1st, 2013 |
Ally had woken up on the later part of the morning, she knew it was April Fool's Day but she hadn't gotten around to prepare her pranks for that year, not that she hadn't had plenty of ides. She had pulled on lazier clothes because Singh had her and Barry on call, as to avoid any possible pranks being exchanged at CCPD. Ally came out into the common space and yelped as she tripped over the rug's corner that had gotten lifted.
Ally got up and dusted herself off, as Libby and Chelsea came walking over.
"You okay Al?" Chelsea asked.
"Yea." Ally nodded, already pushing the rug back down before glaring at it, to her roommates delight, as she began to straighten it up.
Libby held in a giggle as Ally looked up and groaned before she started rearranging their furniture and pictures to be straight and even.
Ally barely took notice of anything else as she deemed the living room decent before she moved to help herself to breakfast.
While she did, Libby and Chelsea exchanged a soft high five before both adjusted a couple items to be off center.
Ally stared at the fridge, taking out the eggs and putting them on the counter while she hunkered down and moved things to better spots inside to fit well and be easily accessible and not crooked. Once it was more acceptable, Ally reached into the cheese drawer just to move items into piles as she extracted the shredded cheddar cheese out.
The same process continued for twenty minutes as Ally straightened the cabinets and the pots and pans. As she did so, Libby and Chelsea grabbed bowls of cereal and made sure to mess as much up as they could without their blonde friend getting suspicious.
The rest of the morning had passed in the same fashion, Ally compulsively continuing to try to straighten the apartment up as Libby and Chelsea only took turns messing it up more.
JITTERS | |
Barry had been at work in the morning, and while he tried to convince Joe and the other detectives to make their badges crooked, all of them refused in case of Ally figuring it out and coming after them. They all knew from Joe about just how crafty the girl could be.
Barry and Ally had made plans to eat lunch together at Jitters before work, and Barry purposefully worn a tie on his shirt, poorly tied so as to hope for Ally to fix it.
Barry stood up from the table he had grabbed to wave Ally over as she entered the café, in doing so he jostled his cup of coffee and his Reuben sandwich slightly.
Ally immediately grinned and made her way over to greet him, only to narrow her eyes on his tie before she immediately closed the gap between them to fix and straighten the tie.
Barry gulped to himself, as he trained his eyes on the top of her hair as she went about fixing the piece of fabric.
"I thought you knew how to tie these, Barry." Ally spoke, looking up to Barry who looked away in embarrassment.
"I do." Barry replied, watching as the woman snorted before continuing to tighten the tie.
"Yeah right," Ally scoffed, as she finished the last tug and blushed as she realized just how close she was to Barry. "I should go order food." Ally claimed, before turning and hopping into the line that had formed.
Ally came back with a cup of strawberry lemonade and a chicken panini. She took a seat easily, before she began to eat her own food.
"How was work in the morning?" Ally asked, having paused between bites.
"Not too terrible, just one armed mugging and an attempted kidnapping." Barry spoke through his mouthful of food, making Ally glare at him for chewing with his mouth open, spraying crumbs all over the place. "Sorry." He mumbled, covering his mouth before he swallowed. "Got any plans for you know what holiday?" Barry asked, moving his hand out of the way.
"Yes." Ally answered, before she reached over to wipe a crumb off of his face.
"Should I be worried?" Barry asked, allowing nervousness to seep into his tone.
"Maybe." Ally replied, smirking at Barry as she wiped the crumb off of her finger and onto the floor.
The pair sat and chatted for the next hour, saying hi to Iris as the other girl came in for a shift, before leaving.
CCPD LAB | |
As soon as they got to the lab, Ally made a beeline to her desk before freezing as she noticed the lab racks were messed up. She immediately went over to them and twisted and turned tubes and anything to make the disarray into something more acceptable for her taste.
As she did this, Barry watched her with a combination of fondness and mirth that the plan had worked.
"Did a tornado come through or something?" Ally asked, suddenly turning back to Barry in slight annoyance.
"No, one of the senior forensics people came down to borrow some of our equipment." Barry claimed, wincing at the thought of one of them hearing that he said that, "They put it back." He grimaced.
"Stupid Dave and Cameron." Ally muttered, as she finished straightening the things up only to turn to their chemical rack and groan at the similar disarray. She immediately went to it mumbling and grumbling as she tried to reach things that were too high for her to reach to turn around.
Barry just stared at the woman as her reaching began to move her shirt up from her midriff slightly, revealing her toned stomach. He gulped only to be called away as Ally spoke.
"Bare, can you help me?" Ally had asked, on her tiptoes as she reached for the top rack of the shelving.
"Huh." Barry muttered, before he looked to her eyes which were holding curiosity, "Yeah, do you want me to do it or to grab your step ladder."
Ally stuck her tongue out at her friend. "You do it." She ordered, letting her heels hit the floor before she huffily stepped back as Barry walked over to help.
Barry laughed at Ally's glare at him as he easily reached up to the top shelf and maneuvered everything.
Ally offered corrections to anything he misplaced, and Barry followed her instructions. When Barry had finished rearranging, he used his hand to tousle the blonde's hair to her dismay.
"Barry!" Ally whined, causing the man to chuckle at her.
"Let's get working, Al," Barry offered, before the two walked to their desks.
As Ally sat down she turned on her computer only to glare at the icons when they popped up. They had all shifted out of her normal layout, and on top of that everything on her desk had been messed with. She tried to ignore the offensive display but ended up working on paperwork and analyses while rearranging anything within reach intermittently.
Barry watched her for minutes on end on and off, making sure to not let her catch him.
The day went on in the same matter, Ally trying to focus on doing her job but being distracted by anything being out of place and having to fix it, and Barry watching her and trying to stay inconspicuous, other than purposefully messing his tie up at one point. The deed did what he had planned in that the now slightly grumpy blonde came and fixed it before grumbling about cleanliness and appearance to herself.
Joe had come into the lab near the end of their shift, and landed his hand on the younger man's shoulder with a great plop, causing Barry to look up at the man in surprise. Joe only laughed, it seemed about right that Barry was too caught up in watching his partner, who at the moment was preoccupied with moving some of their analysis machines to be square to the front and centered on their tables, to notice him enter the lab.
"Hey Bare." Joe greeted. "She hasn't noticed yet has she?" Joe asked under his breath.
"No." Barry replied.
"Well good luck to you and the girls, once she figures it out." Joe laughed, patting Barry's back before he headed out to go to his desk, where his own partner, Chyre, was sure to be.
The end of their shifts came about near dinner time, and Barry and Ally walked down the stairs to hand off their work to Singh.
After he dismissed them, they were picked up by Chelsea and Libby and thereupon driven back to the apartment, as Barry had been invited over to dinner weeks in advance by the girls.
ALLY'S APARTMENT | |
Dinner was rather uneventful, other than Barry allowing his tie to loosen more, and not noticing Libby and Chelsea watching Ally in glee, as the blonde re-did his tie for the third time that day. The dinner was interspersed by Ally glaring at a picture hanging across from her being crooked, and her friends trying their best not to laugh at her, as she finally got up and stomped over to it before leveling out the top of the frame.
The gaggle of pranksters decided to take it easy on Ally, and the group settled down for a movie, Ally sandwiched between Libby and Barry on the couch with Chelsea on one of the armchairs. They had settled on watching Men in Black III, a movie that came out the past summer.
Libby and Chelsea eyed the blonde woman, and Barry, who both were cozied up next to each other for the majority of the movie, neither Ally, and Barry, realized the other was staring at them while they were engrossed in the movie. Libby and Chelsea exchanged laughing looks at the fact, knowing both of their friends were oblivious.
Ally had been paying attention to the movie, and as it's credits started to roll, she finally had time to think about how her day went. In doing so, she realized the sheer amount of things that were out of place, especially in vicinity of those that she was surrounded with. Ally blinked, as the realization formed in her head.
"You jerks." She suddenly yelped, coming loose from her spot on the couch, looped into Barry's arms slightly. Which wasn't weird and wasn't because she liked him or anything, Ally told herself.
"What?" Libby questioned, her face blank in a façade of innocence, as Chelsea and Barry barely held themselves together.
"You guys deliberately messed everything up!" Ally yelped, facing the trio and causing them to burst into laughter.
"Happy April Fools." Chelsea got out between peels of laughter.
"Yeah," Barry laughed, "April Fools, Al." Ally glared at him, which only caused him to laugh harder as he leaned heavily over the couch's armrest.
"Gotcha," Libby giggled, having stopped hers momentarily, making Ally turn and glare at her younger sister.
"Whose idea was it?" Ally practically growled.
"Mine." Libby replied easily, as she looked at her sister.
"You..." Ally stammered, her face growing red. "I'll get you for that Lib." She threatened, before she turned to face her other friends, "Don't think I'll leave you two out of this."
"C'mon Al, was only a prank." Chelsea laughed, before she leaned back into her armchair.
"Exactly," Ally replied, already scheming, "which is exactly why I'll get you guys back for it next April Fools."
Barry laughed, before he pulled her back onto the couch for the group to bicker over what movie or show to watch next.
Sorry, this turned out longer than I wanted it to be, but I'm finally happy with it. Hope you guys enjoy and that nobody is too out of character.
The next April fools for them takes place during Ally and Barry's coma, so there will likely be a brief april fools moment if i can get through the first half of season one and into the later half of it.
I am working on Walking on Thin Air, just with School, Work and joining Fencing Club, it's harder this year to find time to work on it. I promise you guys that I'll get a new chapter up soon. It won't likely be this weekend as I've got two tests on the first half of the following week.
Thanks for y'all's patience.
Lots of Love,
StarLyrical
Review Responses
abbyjoy7 - thanks for your support! and that would be pretty funny, I'll keep it in mind for the in season idea list. though might spin your idea a bit, as the idea of Ally getting a giant thing of flypaper and tricking Barry into running through it sounds like a blast.